Bitter Submission ✓

Chapter Thirty

|Thirty|

|Luxinia|

Looking across the room, I saw Tessa curled up at the end of a couch while Blair sat beside her. Roman was leaning against the wall still in a suit. Daemon was sitting on a chair in the middle of the room that faced everyone. Across from him was Haden and Sareia, whose face looked grim. Everyone was injured in one way or another. I couldn't help but feel it was my fault. I didn't like when people fought my fights. Jesse was sitting on the arm of my chair, protectively.

Daemon stared at me. "Well, I've talked to you all separately about our next moves. Firstly, I'm glad we got two-thirds of our objective. We will be going to get Jamie and soon. However, right now we also need to focus first on keeping the girls far away from here. Jesse, you said you had a plan?"

"Yes. Lux and Tessa can go to London and live with my mother and sisters. They'll be safest there and it's unlikely that anyone will consider looking there," Jesse said.

I frowned. "For how long?"

Daemon folded his arms. "Lux, Bloodtrei discovered how to resurrect incubi, we can no longer kill his army. If he resurrected Dom, he can resurrect anyone he'd like. The only thing we have on our side is how long it takes to resurrect someone I don't know too much about it, but I do know that they will take some time. We need to kill him and anyone that sides with him. Bloodtrei wants you Lux. He knows there's something off about you. We all know there's something off about you. You are no simple succubus. You should've been born a cambion, but you're not. Plus you have... incubus-like qualities. We need to further figure out what does that mean and why Bloodtrei wants you so bad. It's more than him wanting you to be claimed by Dominick."

"I say we just take her apart and say what makes her tick, but that's not my choice, isn't it?" Haden snapped, glaring at me. Daemon gave him a look.

Jesse tensed. "I'd like to see you try that. See what will happen to you, freak."

Haden turned to him and cackled. "Your girlfriend is more of a freak than me."

"Haden, stop. She's not even close to what Everen once was," Sareia looked at me and smirked.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Well... no one could even get you because you were exhibiting sex energy as you know. That's not normal. You can harness sex magic like one of us. A succubus can't do that. We think that's why Bloodtrei wants you," Daemon explained, his eyes narrowing towards Haden.

"That's exactly why he wants her," Roman replied.

Tessa frowned. "It makes sense. Lux, for as long as I've known you, you've always been more powerful than the rest of us. Your sex drive was never sated in the way you wanted it to be. You needed to be claimed by Jamie, not even to keep yourself safe against the council, but to spare the humans you came across. You wouldn't have control and you would kill them as an incubus would."

I stared at the ceramic tiling and sighed. I knew there was more to me, especially due to my father being an incubus and my mother human. I never questioned it because my father was dead and so was my mother. I couldn't focus on any of that. I had no memory of it all. Flashes would come across my mind, but never of my parents. "So what? We have to watch on the sidelines while you men get to do all the hard work. I want to help. If you say I'm so powerful, let me help."

Blair shook his head. "You're still claimed by Dom. You'll be going through withdrawals from him soon. He's a powerful incubus it's bound to happen. You need to be far away from here when that happens."